{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-standards-for-green-bananas-england-and-wales-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-standards-for-green-bananas-england-and-wales-regulations-2012/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/947",
  "legislation_title": "The Quality Standards for Green Bananas (England and Wales) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-standards-for-green-bananas-england-and-wales-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "It is an offence for a person—\n(a) to fail to comply with an obligation on that person in Article 7 of the Commission Regulation;\n(b) to fail to comply with a written undertaking an authorised officer has accepted from that person under regulation 13(1);\n(c) to fail to comply with a movement control notice served under regulation 15(1);\n(d) to fail to comply with a warning notice served under regulation 14(1);\n(e) intentionally to obstruct an authorised officer acting for the purpose of the enforcement of these Regulations or the checks under the Commission Regulation, or a person accompanying such an authorised officer under regulation 6(4)(a) (including obstruction by the unauthorised alteration, concealment or removal of a label, demarcation tape or any other material used by an authorised officer);\n(f) without reasonable excuse, proof of which lies on that person, to—\n(i) fail to give an authorised officer acting for the purpose of the enforcement of these Regulations or the checks under the Commission Regulation any assistance or information;\n(ii) fail to provide any record or facilities that an authorised officer may reasonably require; or\n(iii) supply to an authorised officer any information knowing it to be false, inaccurate or misleading.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 11.5.2012, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/947/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:22.956606+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}